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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 01 Aug 2010Categories: United Arab Emirates, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Arrests and legal action, Surveillance, Privacy, Conflict and security filtering, Filtering tech and softwareOn July 29th, Reporters Sans Frontiers reported that the United Arab Emirates (UAE) arrested one BlackBerry user, detained another, and are pursuing five activists.0 comment(s)
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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 06 Jul 2010Lebanon arrested 3 individuals (Naim George Hanna, Antoine Youssef Ramia, Shebel Rajeh Qasab), and Prosecutor General Saeed Mirza issued an arrest warrant for a fourth (Ahmed Ali Shuman) for slander and defamation of President Michel Suleiman on Facebook.
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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 28 Jun 2010
Following the anniversary of the Iran election protests on June 12th, Iranian reform protesters began accusing Twitter of censoring #iranelection when the hashtag did not trend on the site that day.
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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 21 Jun 2010
Global Voices Online and the Social Media Exchange (SMEX) report that Lebanese activists organizing under the slogan Stop The Vote have managed to postpone parliamentary voting for one month (starting June 15) on what they see as a disturbing e-Transactions law. This law, which they see as "[threatening] to create a more restrictive or at least more monitored online environment in Lebanon" has a few troubling articles.
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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 08 Jun 2010Turkish internet users have been tweeting that that they have been unable to access some Google Services over the past few days, using the hashtag #TurkeyCensorGoogle.
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By: Sarah HamdiDate: 02 Jun 2010Categories: Israel, Middle East and North Africa (MENA), Take-down, Search result removal, Political filtering
Tweeters and observers The Guardian, TechCrunch, and The Arabist have been wondering if Twitter censored hashtag #Flotilla and search term "flotilla" when it began trending on Sunday night.
